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10 Pfennig Caricature Series - Issue 4
| Issuer | City of Arnstadt (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red and black on cream paper, the reverse presents a boldly drawn satirical caricature vignette by A. Paul Weber, showing two grotesque figures — a profiteer and a black-marketeer — seated astride the large black numeral "10", one smoking and the other clutching a jug, rendered in an expressionist line style. The denomination "10 Pfennig" appears in Fraktur script at the base, with corner numerals "10" in each quadrant. A continuous border inscription running around all four sides bears the sardonic legend condemning usurers and black-marketeers, partially printed in inverted orientation along the bottom edge. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 Pfennig KENNST DU MEIN LIEBER ES SIND WUCHERER UND SCHIEBER FRÜHER WURDEN SIE AN DEN GALGEN GEHANGEN HEUTE WIRD RUHIG WEITER GESCHOBEN DIESE APW BROT |
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A. Paul Weber was one of the more distinctive figures working in German graphic art during the Weimar period — a committed satirist whose later career was complicated by his early association with Ernst Niekisch's National Bolshevist circle. His involvement in Arnstadt's caricature notgeld series brought genuine artistic weight to what was, in most municipalities, a purely functional exercise in small-change substitution.
The "printed" date of 30 April 1945 in this record almost certainly reflects a cataloging or data entry error — Arnstadt's notgeld issues belong firmly to the 1921 inflation emergency series, decades before that date.